The length indeed is important for the pitch. We once played the 1st act of the Nutcracker in my orchestra and it needs a "children's toy trumpet" tuned in C. It is of course impossible to find such a thing, but then we used exactly this trick to produce the sound of one (if the funnel is small enough, it sounds like a toy trumpet anyway). During the rehearsal weekend we used scissors to tune it. Knowing how long the hose should approximately be, we just cut small pieces from it. It was awesome!
Back in about 1960, Dennis Brain played the Mozart French Horn Concerto on a length of garden hose connected to a mouthpiece. Hoffnung recorded it, if you are lucky enough to find the CD.
i play a brass instrument and this is definitely NOT fake. get any horn without keys, and this is exactly what it does. btw, this is amazing. you have to be really talented to do this.
Interesting, but we did this when I served in H.M. Royal Marines Band (UK) back in the 1970s! Our top brass players would tape the funnel to the tubing and, amogst other things, would swing it around whilst playing. They also fixed the tubing to the spout of an old fashioned kettle, take the lid off, and hey-presto yet another, fun, 'musical' instrument........ in fact, this can be done with any object that has an entry, and an exit. Ah, those good old days!!!!
it is true, thats how natural trumpets work. the only differences are in the material, and a slightly more gradual expansion to the end of the bell in a brass made trumpet.
StarCrusher sorry for the late reply, but the valves on a trumpet do serve a purpose. With a setup like this, you can only play a series of notes that are farther apart in pitch and get closer the higher you go up. Look up “harmonic scales” the valves on a trumpet change the length of the instrument, allowing for a greater variety of pitches to be played. A lot of notes would not be able to be played on this instrument, known as a baroque horn.
In the 1980s at some stage, in a free gig in the art gallery up the road, a French Horn player from the Liverpool Phil did this mouthpiece and hosepipe demo. He was just a tad cooler than the cool cat herein depicted, he showed how to get a Wah Wah effect by swinging the hosepipe round your head whilst playing - well, you've got nothing else to do .....
to change the length of the pipe, when you press them down they divert the air through different pipes, and a trombone uses a slide which changes the length, instead of buttons
Same. lol In order to find this video, I had to type in the search bar "I wanted to show you a very primitive piece of equipment trumpet" and boom! This video popped up. lol
@SycamoreHill14 not a joke. this is legitimately what trumpets used to be. valves were only invented about 200 years ago. All trumpets were then were metal tubes. You control the pitch with air speed and embouchure (lips movement/position)
OK, just to clarify, this instrument CANNOT do what a trumpet can do. It can't even come close. He does a very good job of masking this by playing only the notes that are in tune, but there's more to making a musical instrument than just a mouthpiece and a tube. However, don't let that stop you from buying some vinyl tubing and a mouthpiece if you want to have some fun. That's how I got started anyway. There are two main differences between this instrument and a trumpet: a trumpet has valves, and a trumpet also has a conical bore, whereas vinyl tubing has a cylindrical bore. This means that the overtone series for this instrument is different from the one used by a trumpet, and the notes don't line up the same. The purpose of the bell of a trumpet is not just to amplify the sound -- it's to tune the harmonics. If you want to see a musical instrument with a conical bore but no valves or keys, I recommend the bugle or the alphorn. You can do a lot with just a well-tuned overtone series.
What he made here is a bugle. A proper bugle (the kind that looks like a valveless trumpet) can play about 5 notes, each many notes apart. Think about most bugle calls, like Charge!, Taps and Reveille. These are played on a trumpet without the use of the valves (or, by holding the same combination down for the entire bugle call to change the key). Once you've built up your lip muscles, it isn't hard. Just remember your own strength when it's time to kiss the girls.
the quality of the tubing, the length, and the quality of air (volume, speed and accuracy).. determine the quality of sound.. the fact that he can make plastic tubing and plastic funnel sound like a hybrid between a trumpet and a french horn is outstanding. just coil up the tubing a few times and play a show! :)
@SycamoreHill14 No bullshit, with trumpets and instruments like that it's about your lip tendency.. (I don't know if that's the correct term for it in english). You can play on just a trumpet mouth piece..
exactly. they are all in the trumpet family. therefore the correction, which has now been removed for whatever reason and the author withheld, was unnecessary and incorrect. that is my point.
Well, there are cornets, piccolo trumpetss...etc. I used cornets as an example. I apologize for using it as the only example...it could be misleading. But when someone sees ANY valved trumpet, they simply call it a trumpet. When someone sees a bugle, they simply call it a bugle...and they differentiate between the two....even though technically they are all in the trumpet family.
a trumpet works the same way, you don't have to touch your valves to change your tone. the higher you get, the smaller the distances between the notes become. I will give it a try later on this week, cuz if it works, I'll have a new instrument to experiment with! thanks for posting this vid!
@bsanj1025 That called a "condensation key". The tubing acts like a still and distills the water vapor from your lung when you exhale. It the same thing whales do when they exhale. You get mainly water vapor with some saliva & mucus.
its a straight trumpet! my old instructor got an actual straight trumpet (a normal brass one) for free once because it had been thrown from a truck driving down the highway. i couldn't believe how nice that horn sounded after he fixed it up. it still looked super nasty though
Read some of the comments, what a bunch of babies. This is simple basics and designed to illustrate just that. There is a full band of kids from a school that plays only instruments mmade from what others regard as trash, they actually tour and bring awareness to the public. Music is like beauty, its in the mind of the beholder.
I don't understand all the argument over what Type of trumpet it is. It's a standard Baroque Trumpet, usually referred to as a Fanfare or Herald trumpet. It is certainly Not a Cornet as these are distinguished from other Trumpets by having a conical bore.
I guess doing this on a piece of tubing takes a lot of practice. Your mouth has to generate those different frequencies, and so you need a lot of control over the swinging of your lips within the mouthpiece. I can't tell how difficult it exactly is, but I know that principle from a cow horn, and believe me, it took me a lot of practice to get one clean sound out of it, I doubt getting so many sounds out of a pipe is as easy as it looks.
i really didn't expect this to be the original video
Tucker Showkeir me 2, because there was a clip with the music replaced with skrillex
+ERO PIXX me is Anime opening
neither XD
hehe looking for the uravel
Putting my trumpet on craigslist and buying some plastic tubing.
might as well buy a bugle.
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Get more than 1 meter, please
"NO MOM, IT'S NOT A BEER BONG, IT'S AN INSTRUMENT!"
I"M NOT DRINKING, I'M "PRACTICING" MOTHER!
I SWEAR IM NOT LYING
Kinda makes you think what's the point of spending a fortune on a brass instrument when you just buy a plastic tube.
Well, I suppose so you don't look like a homeless loon blowing into things he found in a dumpster.
nexus1g I would give that homeless loon money for ingenuity
alan macbay you can't hit every note, only one position's worth of notes, like Bb, f, Bb, d, f... not Ab and all those others
alan macbay because its sound more perfect and also you can only play 1/9 of the notes
So you don't have to carry around 4 horns to play
The length indeed is important for the pitch. We once played the 1st act of the Nutcracker in my orchestra and it needs a "children's toy trumpet" tuned in C. It is of course impossible to find such a thing, but then we used exactly this trick to produce the sound of one (if the funnel is small enough, it sounds like a toy trumpet anyway). During the rehearsal weekend we used scissors to tune it. Knowing how long the hose should approximately be, we just cut small pieces from it. It was awesome!
Who knew you could play a beer bong.
aahahaha xD
Nick Pie after I drank all that beer I'm gonna play bhatoven
🤪
Back in about 1960, Dennis Brain played the Mozart French Horn Concerto on a length of garden hose connected to a mouthpiece. Hoffnung recorded it, if you are lucky enough to find the CD.
"Her royal majesty is entering the palace!" hahaha
🤣🤣🤣
i play a brass instrument and this is definitely NOT fake. get any horn without keys, and this is exactly what it does.
btw, this is amazing. you have to be really talented to do this.
Congrats. You've made a bugle.
What a great set of lips! Wonderful sound and technique.
this was gold. well done to everyone involved.
Bugler players have been getting ripped off for centuries.
I have a test tomorrow why am I watching this!
same XD
hahahahhah yes me tooo
Same
How'd it go?
sameeee
this is amazing! and it is SO not fake. it seems anything on a brass instrument is possible if you've got the chops to change the notes like he did!
Take away the mouth price and that there is a beer bong.
Keep the mouth piece and it's a "one time at band camp" story
Stumbled from GA...This is just to cool!
Music comes from the mind, hands, mouth, and lungs. Instruments are just wrenches.
Mind Blown. BLOWN. GET IT? DAD JOKE.
Nice lip trill.
Interesting how his mouthpiece placement is decidedly off-center. I love how people make their own adjustments to make their best sound.
the dislikes are from people who bought a 500 dollar trumpet instead this amazing instrument
"what instrument do you play?"
*T U B E*
I can't believe you got that sound out of a plastic hose ! ! !
Interesting, but we did this when I served in H.M. Royal Marines Band (UK) back in the 1970s! Our top brass players would tape the funnel to the tubing and, amogst other things, would swing it around whilst playing. They also fixed the tubing to the spout of an old fashioned kettle, take the lid off, and hey-presto yet another, fun, 'musical' instrument........ in fact, this can be done with any object that has an entry, and an exit. Ah, those good old days!!!!
it is true, thats how natural trumpets work. the only differences are in the material, and a slightly more gradual expansion to the end of the bell in a brass made trumpet.
why not get some thicker tubing and put a tuba mouthpiece in
Exactly.
because this is Walmart Screwing Around.
I'm gonna take one to Tubachristmas this year!
Makes you think what they need the buttons for on the real trumpets.
StarCrusher sorry for the late reply, but the valves on a trumpet do serve a purpose. With a setup like this, you can only play a series of notes that are farther apart in pitch and get closer the higher you go up. Look up “harmonic scales” the valves on a trumpet change the length of the instrument, allowing for a greater variety of pitches to be played. A lot of notes would not be able to be played on this instrument, known as a baroque horn.
I'm more amazed at how clean the tone is when he buzzes on the mouth piece. Transfer that over to a trumpet and....wowza!
In the 1980s at some stage, in a free gig in the art gallery up the road, a French Horn player from the Liverpool Phil did this mouthpiece and hosepipe demo. He was just a tad cooler than the cool cat herein depicted, he showed how to get a Wah Wah effect by swinging the hosepipe round your head whilst playing - well, you've got nothing else to do .....
to change the length of the pipe, when you press them down they divert the air through different pipes, and a trombone uses a slide which changes the length, instead of buttons
To get it straight, everyone here used stumble upon ? Outrageous !
Stumbled from Philippines, lol
and then, you funnel your beer for a drunken orchestral moment
Unbelievable, how deceptively real the "Bach trumpet" sounds with the plastic filter
I reckon he and Linsey Pollak would get along really well!
This is a really awesome instrument
0:28 I'm from the dubstep version.
Same. lol In order to find this video, I had to type in the search bar "I wanted to show you a very primitive piece of equipment trumpet" and boom! This video popped up. lol
this versions fruity
Link please?
Can anyone tell me the link for the dubstep version?
This is so thrilling! I know what my weekend project is!
First like👁️👄👁️🤼
at first i thought he was playing bonetrousle
that's awesome! I can't wait to find the trumpet mouthpiece and try it! haha!
That 12 years ago comment.
@SycamoreHill14 not a joke. this is legitimately what trumpets used to be. valves were only invented about 200 years ago. All trumpets were then were metal tubes. You control the pitch with air speed and embouchure (lips movement/position)
OK, just to clarify, this instrument CANNOT do what a trumpet can do. It can't even come close. He does a very good job of masking this by playing only the notes that are in tune, but there's more to making a musical instrument than just a mouthpiece and a tube. However, don't let that stop you from buying some vinyl tubing and a mouthpiece if you want to have some fun. That's how I got started anyway.
There are two main differences between this instrument and a trumpet: a trumpet has valves, and a trumpet also has a conical bore, whereas vinyl tubing has a cylindrical bore. This means that the overtone series for this instrument is different from the one used by a trumpet, and the notes don't line up the same. The purpose of the bell of a trumpet is not just to amplify the sound -- it's to tune the harmonics. If you want to see a musical instrument with a conical bore but no valves or keys, I recommend the bugle or the alphorn. You can do a lot with just a well-tuned overtone series.
Wow, what a great player! Bravo!!
What he made here is a bugle. A proper bugle (the kind that looks like a valveless trumpet) can play about 5 notes, each many notes apart. Think about most bugle calls, like Charge!, Taps and Reveille. These are played on a trumpet without the use of the valves (or, by holding the same combination down for the entire bugle call to change the key). Once you've built up your lip muscles, it isn't hard. Just remember your own strength when it's time to kiss the girls.
the quality of the tubing, the length, and the quality of air (volume, speed and accuracy).. determine the quality of sound.. the fact that he can make plastic tubing and plastic funnel sound like a hybrid between a trumpet and a french horn is outstanding. just coil up the tubing a few times and play a show! :)
Looks like something you would find in a Dr.Seuss book!
The Best video on youtube I have ever seen
..(:
stumbled from ct. he made a trumpet out of a beer bong. 20 points to that guy
Give this man a beer!
He's pretty good at that!
@SycamoreHill14 No bullshit, with trumpets and instruments like that it's about your lip tendency.. (I don't know if that's the correct term for it in english). You can play on just a trumpet mouth piece..
come to think of it in the midle ages there werent any valves on brass instruments so this is pretty cool
It's basically an unspooled bugle. Nice!
He's pretty darn good at playing the Lowes Hose.
High guys! I was able to play the same range of notes (harmonic) on 9ft of tubing. However, i would recommend more for a more trumpet-like sound.
Stumble from Calgary, Alberta, CANADA!
@TheJoshhaglund
wtf me too (Perth) and whats weirder is ive seen this vid b4...
Is that comment 10 years ago from 2.55M sub channel!!
Waaaaw
Stumbled from Los Angeles, California!
Aaaaand..you just invented the "Beer Bong Trumpet".
He forgot to mention four years of school and practice to build a perfect ambechure lol
It's the moisture produced by his breath.
I'm going to show up to an audition with one of these.
...into the future. Time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin...into the future.
Excellent how to video. How long is the tubing. Does variations in the length change the the pitch. Richard
exactly. they are all in the trumpet family. therefore the correction, which has now been removed for whatever reason and the author withheld, was unnecessary and incorrect. that is my point.
*Becomes the lightest instrument*
*Flute, Piccolo, and light ass instrument* : **TrIGgErRED**
I should have chosen that to play in school.
Well, there are cornets, piccolo trumpetss...etc. I used cornets as an example. I apologize for using it as the only example...it could be misleading. But when someone sees ANY valved trumpet, they simply call it a trumpet. When someone sees a bugle, they simply call it a bugle...and they differentiate between the two....even though technically they are all in the trumpet family.
a trumpet works the same way, you don't have to touch your valves to change your tone. the higher you get, the smaller the distances between the notes become. I will give it a try later on this week, cuz if it works, I'll have a new instrument to experiment with!
thanks for posting this vid!
How'd it go?
Instrument by day- beer bong by night.
stumbled from California, USA
@bsanj1025 That called a "condensation key". The tubing acts like a still and distills the water vapor from your lung when you exhale. It the same thing whales do when they exhale. You get mainly water vapor with some saliva & mucus.
Yeah. It'd be pretty cool if it had everything a trumpet had (valves, slides, extensions, water keys, etc.)
I tried this and it totally worked! Try it yourself.
its a straight trumpet! my old instructor got an actual straight trumpet (a normal brass one) for free once because it had been thrown from a truck driving down the highway. i couldn't believe how nice that horn sounded after he fixed it up. it still looked super nasty though
Wow man that is cool, very clever too.
I DID NOT STUMBLE THIS PAGE.
except I did. from lebanon, il.
I thought this was a troll till i heard the other videos /intruments which makes sense
stumbled from GA AWESOME...i play trumpet , I'm gonna try it
ok that really is awesome. anyone who hates in this is blind and deaf lol.
Read some of the comments, what a bunch of babies. This is simple basics and designed to illustrate just that. There is a full band of kids from a school that plays only instruments mmade from what others regard as trash, they actually tour and bring awareness to the public. Music is like beauty, its in the mind of the beholder.
Why does a trumpet have buttons and stuff then? The tube seems to do the same thing being the same length all the time...
Stumbled RochTown, MN
This is pretty sweet.
this just blew my mind lol
that too is condensation, sation, sation
I call shenanigans. Theres no way that makes that noise.
Could one do this with a bassoon or oboe reed or another type of woodwind mouthpiece?
His best Chevy Chase impersonation!
stumbled from yuma, AZ!
I don't understand all the argument over what Type of trumpet it is. It's a standard Baroque Trumpet, usually referred to as a Fanfare or Herald trumpet.
It is certainly Not a Cornet as these are distinguished from other Trumpets by having a conical bore.
Dr. John Winkler, professor of trumpet at West Virginia University. And yes, he IS that awesome in person.
I guess doing this on a piece of tubing takes a lot of practice. Your mouth has to generate those different frequencies, and so you need a lot of control over the swinging of your lips within the mouthpiece. I can't tell how difficult it exactly is, but I know that principle from a cow horn, and believe me, it took me a lot of practice to get one clean sound out of it, I doubt getting so many sounds out of a pipe is as easy as it looks.
Stumbled from Port Saint Lucie, FL
from the thumbnail, looked like he was taking a hit from a hookah
stumbled from maine so awesome
o my god that is amazing :D
that is not fake the sound vibrations are just traveling down the tubing and that is how it sounds !
duuh lol
stumbled from toronto, Canada!
Honestly... that sounds awesome o.o
When did Kevin Bacon cut his hair?
He went on to chug a keg of extra stout beer